Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly incensed at Stockman's efforts to push through a package of indirect taxes on such items as tobacco, alcohol and gasoline. Lawrence Kudlow, the chief economist at OMB, has given such tax increases the woolly euphemism of "revenue enhancers." Supply-siders say that increasing taxes would repeat the mistake made in 1979 by Britain's Margaret Thatcher, when she tried to reduce a revenue shortfall brought on by sharp income tax cuts by raising the value-added taxes on consumer goods. Many economists now believe that the Thatcher taxes seriously aggravated Britain's economic slump...
...deal Russell is unlikely to repeat, since Duehay's the fifth vote allowed the school committee to overrule the seniority provision of the teachers' contracts in an effort to retain minority teachers in the wake of Proposition...
...underdeveloped. "We shouldn't put a cut-rate price on our friendship," Ahmed responds. "The fact that we make everyone pay the same shows we respect you as much as we do the West German imperialist." The images are never complicated, and Buchwald doesn't hesitate to repeat his point for emphasis: the only way to follow politics is to laugh at it, and in the end, the trivia of day-to-day life is probably more interesting...
...Crimson continued to apply offensive pressure but couldn't repeat MacMillan's act. With five minutes left to play, the stickwomen were awarded three successive short corners but were unable to convert on any of them. Big Green goalie Frances O'Donaghue made several clutch saves in the closing minutes to insure the Dartmouth victory...
...died. About ten minutes later, as an increasing number of sources around the world began to relay the same word, it was Tom Brokaw's turn to press Correspondent Art Kent on whether he had heard the news "from an official spokesman, or are we all beginning to repeat each other?" Over at ABC, Frank Reynolds explained: "We are obliged to give you information that may turn out to be inaccurate." At moments, the frustration and uncertainty swamped their syntax. Pointing out a prostrate figure in the first still photograph of the shooting at 12:02 p.m. E.D.T...